My students and I were talking about how technology makes life convenient at work and school. I told them of the days when we used a mechanical typewriter that went "click-clack-tikitikitak-zing" and how our hands would get all black from turning the ribbons (a.k.a ink). When we made mistakes, we pressed the backspace button, got a "correction tape", positioned the tape in front of the word and re-typed on the tape over the erroneous word so that it made the mistake "white".
In 2007, I came across Paolo Dy's short movie in English, "QWERTY", a story of a mentally disabled man accused of killing his employer. The doctors tried to make sense of the silent man who said nothing all day except for the seemingly random characters he tirelessly and intensely churned out, one paper after the other, with the keys of an ancient typewriter that once belonged to his alleged victim.
Watch Paolo Dy's incredible entry to Steven Spielberg's "On The Lot" competition.
This is amazing.
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